Aids to otology / by W.R.H. Stewart.

  • Stewart, W. R. H. (William Robert Henry), 1852-1906.
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: Aids to otology / by W.R.H. Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cause of Deafness,—Obstruction to the nasal passage. DISLOCATION OF THE SEPTUM—This sometimes happens from violence or the pressure of a tumour. Symptoms.—Obstruction to respiration; deformity; extensive deviation. Treatment.—Eemove the cause and straighten the deviation. AnsestJietic.—Chloroform. Cause of Deafness.—Obstruction to the nasal passages. FOREIGN BODIES IN THE NARES.—These might cause deafness from obstructing the air-passages. CLOSURE OF NOSTRILS.—Oawse.—Congenital malforma- tions ; disease, such as syphilis, small-pox, etc.; accident; a thickened band sometimes stretches across from the inferior turbinate bone to the septum, partially blocking the canal. Treatment.—Incision, kept open and dilated with oiled lint and sponge tents ; in case of a band, cut across with galvano- cautery; chromic acid applied to the cut surfaces will greatly assist in preventing readhesion. Ansssthetic.—Chloroform; cocaine locally, in case of a band. Cause of Deafness.—The blocking of the air-passages. ADENOID GROWTHS IN THE NASO-PHARYNX.—>^^^^^a- tion.—The vault and posterior wall of the naso-pharynx. They may be few and scattered, or completely fill up the naso- pharynx. Size.—Yary from a pea to large masses, hanging down and partially visible below the palate. Most frequently consist of ridges of adenoid tissue descending from the pharyngeal tonsil on the posterior wall of the naso- pharynx, with no independent growths. Cause.—Chronic nasal catarrh; may be congenital; heredi- tary ; a damp dwelling and atmosphere is conducive to the growth; essentially a disease of childhood, but cases are on record up to the age of thirty-three.* * When the author's paper on adenoid growths was published in the Lancet, giving twenty-eight years as his record for age, he received a letter from a medical man in Australia, saying that he himself, at the age of thirty- three and a half years, had just been operated upon for these growths.
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